Originally posted by Mrlogic

Originally posted by The_Korrigan

I'm 100% sure of two things.

1) there will be a level 80 before the end of the 3 days headstart.

2) it will NOT be me.

 

Me neither.. I plan on taking my time to.... just soak in the fact that it's live and enjoy every step of progress! :D

This +1

with every character i create. So.... lvl 80 is far from happening any time soon for me

I wonder if the first level 80 per server will earn a special title. Something along the lines of "Biggest Loser",  "Obvious Exploiter", "Basement Dweller" or "P2W FTW"

That'd be funny

The people that say they're going to take their time will find that they "accidentally" level relatively quickly.

Those xp spurts you get for exploring aren't bad and DEs give good exp.   Unless you see DEs start and consistently run the other direction to escape them (into already explored territory, you don't want to rush and get more explored exp!) you're going to level. 

Gonna do some crafting?   You get a lot of exp from crafting too.   You get a lot of exp from everything really. 

If you play a lot, you're going to level fast unless you have some prohibitive playstyle bent on not getting exp rather than just playing the game.

Originally posted by Svarcanum
You can feed others crafting mats for the profession to pretty much give them 60 levels for free. Athene style. I'm thinking someone will be 80 through normal leveling and craft feeding by late sunday.

im not attacking you at all and this isnt directed to you...

but in general how can this survive as a "good" or even "great" mmorpg ..this is laughable and even more funny how fan boies think this is the holy trinity of gaming

stuff like this makes me want to throw in the towel on the genra

Right now...

There is a 14 year old boy who's sequestered himself in his parent's basement.  He's meticulously researching everything available about GW2 and mapping out every single area he is going to go to, establishing time frames and goals for each level.  He's stretching out his fingers, buying 2 liters of Jolt from the store, and maintaining a strict diet of Funyuns and Mountain Dew until Midnight, Friday August 24th...when he plans to change the World (of Tyria) forever.

This boy, will be the first GW2 player to level 80.

on my first character it will probably take about 2 weeks. On my second, probably more like 7-8 weeks? maybe longer.

I like the race, and don't mind that I will basically be rolling an alt shortly after reaching cap. No I don't care if im first. its really not an epeen thing .. its more the challenge of it. It only happens once in a game .. expansions are fun to race through too, but not nearly as fun as a fresh game .. so I enjoy that aspect of it as much as I can, and then go about things at a more normal pace.

So you get to 80 first and run around in WvW??  Then the server resets every 2 weeks, hehe.    You cattassed and all you got was a lousy tshirt=)

Getting to max level fast means absolutely NOTHING besides whatever nerd pride comes with that sort of accomplishment.

Originally posted by The_Korrigan

I'm 100% sure of two things.

1) there will be a level 80 before the end of the 3 days headstart.

2) it will NOT be me.

 

Couldn't have said it any better on both counts.

My prediction is that the first player to max level will be a man named Tim the Enchanter.

They will promptly shut the servers down temporarily to boost the level cap and content when that event happens.

EDIT: I may be mixing up my games though...

I also wanna see how many people get the reference (and it's not to monty python).

Originally posted by Badaboom
Can someone confirm if leveling from one level to another exponentially rises or not? I don't think it does. So I believe people will be leveling really fast. At least all if the content remains relevant.

Unless they changed it recently, the leveling curve is flat, so leveling takes the same amount of time and effort across all levels.  I believe they did that because levels don't matter so much in the game except to exclude you from certain content until you attain that level.

Would of been me, but once you hit 80 what now ?  That and I don't have the time to play right now so will have to wait to buy the game.

I know plenty of people who hit max level during the beta weekends which was like 30.

Originally posted by The_Korrigan

I'm 100% sure of two things.

1) there will be a level 80 before the end of the 3 days headstart.

2) it will NOT be me.

This ^.

I'm also 100% sure that within the first week of the game we will have a troll claiming 'I already hit 80 and there's nothing to do!' Luckily, by that point the game will be launched, so instead of having my braincells attacked on a forum, I will be happily enjoying the game at hand.

some one got to lvl 80 in WVW by then end of BE2  so in WvW i say a few days

PvE if ther is not a gorup that plans on running to lvl 80 i say more then a week where doess most of the XP xome from the DE so when said player getrs to like lvl 40+ they are going to have to do DE in low lvl zone as there will be not one to help in the high lvl zones they are running to lvl 80 rember.

Originally posted by jazz.be
This is one of those MMORPG's where it doesn't matter you're falling behind right? Since levels have limited meaning.

It doesn't really matter no, but that won't prevent people from thinking it does.

I feel sorry for those who rush to lvl 80.

First they miss a lot of the content(which yes they can go back, but will they?)

Second from what I hear of Orr(lvl 80 map).

It basicially a gaint war zone, and I dont see how a small amount of players could adv through it.

So for those who rush, and get to Orr before anyone else.

I do feel sorry for them, because Orr will own there ass's.